The Board remands the claims for service connection of various finger and hand disabilities, wrist disabilities, and a cervical spine strain due to insufficient evidence.
The deciding factor: The claims require further examination as there is no objective evidence supporting the Veteran's subjective complaints and the VA examinations are inadequate.
- Claimed conditions
- right index finger disability, left index finger disability, right little finger disability, left little finger disability, right long finger disability, left long finger disability, right ring finger disability, left ring finger disability, right thumb disability, left thumb disability, right hand/wrist disability, to include carpal tunnel syndrome, left hand/wrist disability, to include carpal tunnel syndrome, cervical spine strain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Gulf War
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 14, 2025
- Citation
- A25034161
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Decisions by this judge: 719 · Granted: 54% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities prevented him from securing and following substantial gainful employment, leading to a grant of TDIU.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities prevented him from securing and following substantial gainful employment, leading to a grant of TDIU.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal of a 10% rating for left index finger disability since July 12, 2016 is dismissed because the initial decision was not an 'initial decision' under the AMA and proper procedures were not followed.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for chronic dry eye, chronic fatigue syndrome, constipation, IBS, left little finger disability, left index finger disability, left thumb disability, left ring finger disability, left long finger disability, right ring finger disability, right index finger disability, right long finger disability, and right thumb disability due to an error in the initial decision. The Veteran was not provided with notice of her right to a hearing on these issues.
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